# # dtuple.py: Database Tuple handling # # Written by Greg Stein. Public Domain. # No Copyright, no Rights Reserved, and no Warranties. # # This module is maintained by Greg and is available at: # http://www.lyra.org/greg/python/dtuple.py # # Some discussion/usage of this module can be found at: # http://www.python.org/pipermail/db-sig/1996-January/000000.html # http://www.python.org/pipermail/db-sig/1997-January/000152.html # (and various other posts around these time frames) # # Since this isn't in any Python distribution yet, we'll use the CVS ID for # tracking: # $Id: dtuple.py,v 1.1 2004/09/27 16:43:51 pbuschman Exp $ # class TupleDescriptor: """Describes a return tuple from a DB-API fetch*() method. Instances of this class are used to describe database tuples (which are typically instances of DatabaseTuple or one of its derivative classes). These instances specify the column names, formats, lengths, and other relevant information about the items in a particular tuple. An instance is typically shared between many database tuples (such as those returned by a single query). Note: the term database tuple is rather specific; in actuality the tuple may have come from non-database sources and/or generated by a process wholly unrelated to databases. Note again: I'm open for new names for this and the DatabaseTuple class and concept :-) """ def __init__(self, desc): """TupleDescriptor constructor. An instance is created by passing a "descriptor" to fully specify the information about the related database tuple. This descriptor takes the form of a tuple or list where each element is a tuple. The first element of this tuple is the name of the column. The following elements of the tuple are used to describe the column (such as length, format, significant digits, etc). """ self.desc = tuple(desc) ### validate the names? self.names = map(lambda x: x[0], desc) self.namemap = { } for i in range(len(self.names)): self.namemap[self.names[i]] = i def __len__(self): """Returns the number of elements in the data object. A tuple descriptor responds to __len__ to simplify some processing by allowing the use of the len() builtin function. """ return len(self.names) def __repr__(self): return '%s(%s)' % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.desc)) def __str__(self): return str(self.desc) class DatabaseTuple: """Wraps the return data from a DB-API fetch*() method. Instances of this class are used to represent tuples of information, typically returned by a database query. A TupleDescriptor is used as a means of describing the information for a variety of access methods. The tuple's information can be accessed via simple indexing, slices, as a mapping where the keys are the column names (as defined by the descriptor), or via attribute-based access (where the attribute names are equivalent to the column names). This object acts as a tuple, a list, a mapping, and an instance. To retrieve "pure" tuples, lists, or mappings, the asTuple(), asList(), and asMapping() methods may be used, each returning a value equal to what this object pretends to be. There exists a potential ambiguity between attempting to act as a list or mapping and the attribute-based access to the data. In particular, if the column names are 'index', 'count', 'keys', 'items', 'values', or 'has_key', then the attribute-based access will have precedence over their related methods for lists and mappings. To actually use these methods, simply apply them to the result of the asList() or asMapping() methods. Note that column names with leading underscores may interfere with the implementation of this class, and as a result may not be accessible via the attribute-access scheme. Also, column names of asTuple, asList, and asMapping will be inaccessible via the attribute-access scheme since those will always represent the methods. To access these columns, the mapping interface can be used with the column name as the mapping key. Note that a database tuple acts as a tuple with respect to sub-scripted assignment. TypeError exceptions will be raised for several situations, and AttributeError may be raised for some methods that are intended to mutate the data (list's 'sort' method) as these methods have not been implemented. """ def __init__(self, desc, data): """DatabaseTuple constructor. A DatabaseTuple is initialized with a TupleDescriptor and a tuple or list specifying the data elements. """ if len(desc) != len(data): raise ValueError # descriptor does not seem to describe tuple if type(desc) == type(()) or type(desc) == type([]): desc = TupleDescriptor(desc) self.__dict__['_desc_'] = desc self.__dict__['_data_'] = tuple(data) def __str__(self): return str(self._data_) def __repr__(self): return '%s(%s,%s)' % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self._desc_), repr(self._data_)) def __cmp__(self, other): if type(self._data_) == type(other): return cmp(self._data_, other) if type(self._data_) == type( {} ): return cmp(self.asMapping(), other) if type(self._data_) == type( () ): return cmp(self.asTuple(), other) if type(self) == type(other): ### fix this: need to verify equal classes return cmp(self._data_, other._data_) return cmp(self._data_, other) def __getattr__(self, name): 'Simulate attribute-access via column names' return self._getvalue_(name) def __setattr__(self, name, value): 'Simulate attribute-access via column names' ### need to redirect into a db update raise TypeError, "can't assign to this subscripted object" def __getitem__(self, key): 'Simulate indexed (tuple/list) and mapping-style access' if type(key) == type(1): return self._data_[key] return self._getvalue_(key) def __setitem__(self, key, value): 'Simulate indexed (tuple/list) and mapping-style access' if type(key) == type(1): ### need to redirect into a db update of elem #key raise TypeError, "can't assign to this subscripted object" ### need to redirect into a db update of elem named key raise TypeError, "can't assign to this subscripted object" def __len__(self): return len(self._data_) def __getslice__(self, i, j): 'Simulate list/tuple slicing access' return self._data_[i:j] def __setslice__(self, i, j, list): 'Simulate list/tuple slicing access' ### need to redirect into a db update of elems raise TypeError, "can't assign to this subscripted object" def _keys_(self): "Simulate mapping's methods" return self._desc_.names def _has_key_(self, key): "Simulate mapping's methods" return key in self._desc_.names def _items_(self): "Simulate mapping's methods" return self.asMapping().items() def _count_(self, item): "Simulate list's methods" return self.asList().count(item) def _index_(self, item): "Simulate list's methods" return self.asList().index(item) def _getvalue_(self,name): 'Internal method for named-based value retrieval' if name not in self._desc_.names: if name == 'keys': return self._keys_ if name == 'items': return self._items_ if name == 'values': return self.asList if name == 'has_key': return self._has_key_ if name == 'count': return self._count_ if name == 'index': return self._index_ raise AttributeError return self._data_[self._desc_.namemap[name]] def asMapping(self): 'Return the "tuple" as a real mapping' value = { } for name, idx in self._desc_.namemap.items(): value[name] = self._data_[idx] return value def asTuple(self): 'Return the "tuple" as a real tuple' return self._data_ def asList(self): 'Return the "list" as a real mapping' return map(None, self._data_)